RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12865, 25 May 1905, Page 2

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

StiEG'lUS' MURDER. United Press Association. — By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. ! LoiMon, May 21. 1 it is officially annoiiuiced tJiat Jvolaii'ii", tho m'.ur'derer of- Graitfd Huike Sorg-i,us, showed no contrition. Spealk•hrg- oji the scafibld no decl'ardd it was a l'io that he had asked far pardon. "1 am glad to lclio remaining faitihfful to the tradition of the people with which the name of party is identical jwitdi the revolutionary Socialists. London, May 24. Tho Treasury authorities oh'arg'ad Artlrtu- McOullough, actor, atoid HaroM Brailsfond, author and journalist, at Bow-street with conspiracy to obitain a passport by means of false pretences. It is alleg-c*d thoy gave the passport to a man bearing tho name of McOullough, who was killed in a St. Veter^urg hotel in Fobi'uary t'h'roiigh a bomb explosion. The Treasury exoneratod defondants of all knowledg-c Qf violence <'ontemji)late l d. Brailsifoa^l admitted obtaining three passports at' the instance of a niemibcr of tho E)ussian revolutionary moivomQnt, b(ut received an assurance that they were 'intended for peaceful propagandist p-uiiposos. The hearing was a'djofurjned. BELTGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE BESULT. Becpived May 25, S a.m. St. Petersburg, May 2-1. Since the promulgation of 'the Imperial ukase granting religious freedom to dissenters, twenty-six thousand Greek Uniaites, or United Greeks, in the governments Siedlce and Lublin have left the Orthodox for the Roman ! Catholic Church. The authorities are furious, and have forbidden the Polish press £p refar, ta $Et isnbject. CHIEF OF POLICE INJURED. Received .May 25, 9 a.m. ;St. Petersburg, May 24. bomb severely injured the Chief of Police at Siedlce. He was seated on Ihe" verandah of his Club. The thrower escaped. It is reported at Kieff that there is a plot $o kidnap and hold %he Czarevich for ransom until the fulfilment of a social democratic revolutionary programme. The discovery was made owing to treachery. Many of the Czar's domestic suite have been dismissed. A goods train, with passenger carriages attached, was derailed near Kkarkoff, and many killed and injured.